Package: phpbb3 Version: 3.0.10-4+deb7u2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream The Q&A captcha plugin normally does not allow an empty question set as per the manual, section "How to configure Q&A CAPTCHA". However, if you install a language pack after you have configured the Q&A, the enabled Q&A for the new languages will have an empty question set, allowing bots to register without *any* security checks.
The result that installing language packs impacts security seems as a non-obvious effect. Either a warning, a safer failure of the Q&A CAPTCHA, or having empty language sets falling back to other languages would be a large improvement to the current situation. /Björn Påhlsson -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages phpbb3 depends on: ii apache2 2.2.22-13+deb7u4 ii apache2-mpm-itk [httpd] 2.2.22-13+deb7u4 ii boa [httpd] 0.94.14rc21-3.1 ii dbconfig-common 1.8.47+nmu1 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49 ii libapache2-mod-php5 5.4.36-0+deb7u3 ii mysql-client 5.5.41-0+wheezy1 ii mysql-client-5.5 [mysql-client] 5.5.41-0+wheezy1 ii php5 5.4.36-0+deb7u3 ii php5-cgi 5.4.36-0+deb7u3 ii php5-cli 5.4.36-0+deb7u3 ii php5-gd 5.4.36-0+deb7u3 ii php5-mysql 5.4.36-0+deb7u3 ii php5-pgsql 5.4.36-0+deb7u3 ii php5-sqlite 5.4.36-0+deb7u3 ii postgresql-client 9.1+134wheezy4 ii postgresql-client-9.1 [postgresql-client] 9.1.15-0+deb7u1 ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3 Versions of packages phpbb3 recommends: ii php5-imagick 3.1.0~rc1-1+b2 ii postfix [mail-transport-agent] 2.9.6-2 Versions of packages phpbb3 suggests: ii mysql-server 5.5.41-0+wheezy1 ii phpbb3-l10n 3.0.10-4+deb7u2 ii postgresql 9.1+134wheezy4 -- debconf information excluded -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/share/phpbb3/www/includes/functions_profile_fields.php (from phpbb3 package) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
